Officially, the union should start working this weekend. But already 360 people are included in it — this is a little more than a quarter of the country’s developers. Judging by the press release of the union, among them is Mitch McCausland, producer of Featherweight Games studio, but the names and companies of other members are not disclosed.

Yesterday Epic Games started a new confrontation with Google. This time at the center of the scandal is the Bandcamp music platform, which the company bought in early March.

Statistics were shared by the Chinese GameLook portal. Journalists pointed out that since 2016, Diandian Interactive has released eight mobile games outside of China. All of them earn quite well.

Two months ago, Google said that it was going to eventually abandon the GAID advertising identifier. Instead, she intends to deploy the Privacy Sandbox system on Android, which should increase the protection of users’ personal data.

At the beginning of the week, the Chinese giant NetEase announced that it will soon release a collection of NFT cards for Onmyoji. The company promised to donate the money earned on tokens to save pandas. The estimated amount is ¥100 thousand ($15,17 thousand).

The Tech in Asia portal drew attention to this. According to him, over the past month, the DAU of the game Crazy Defense Heroes has decreased from 150 thousand to 40 thousand people. The drop coincided with the introduction of the KYC (know your customer) system into the project — verifying the identity of users.

Sony continues to develop its mobile games division. The company has appointed former Zynga product manager Olivier Courtemanche as Director of Mobile Products. And she gave the position of senior director to Kabam veteran Chris Davis.

The French publisher Focus Interactive has previously reported for the fiscal year that ended on March 31. It didn’t go very well. The company’s revenue decreased by 16.6%.

The complaint was filed by activist Cher Scarlett. She claims that the Fortnite developer refused to hire her because she was protesting against unfair working conditions at Apple and Activision Blizzard.

Activision Blizzard held two important votes yesterday. On one, shareholders evaluated the deal with Microsoft (98% supported it as a result), and on the other, the need for large payments by the company’s top managers if they were fired after the merger.

Yesterday, a remaster / continuation of the cult The Stanley Parable appeared on virtual shelves under the ironic subtitle Ultra Deluxe Expanded Edition.

An American outsourcer with Ukrainian roots, Room 8, who participated in the development of The Last Campfire and Angry Birds Blast Team, announced a new purchase.

Last March, Square Enix released the action-platformer Balan Wonderworld, which immediately received devastating reviews from critics and gamers. After the failure, its creator Yuji Naka left the company. Today he posted a thread on Twitter, where he talked about his relationship with the publisher.

Bandai Namco shared the success of its RPG on the official Twitter of the game. It took Tales of Arise seven and a half months to reach the milestone.

Portal dev.by compared how much IT companies founded by Belarusians or which have an office in Belarus earn in Lithuania. The unequivocal leader was Melsoft, the owner of mobile games Family Island and MyCafe.

A new tool has appeared on the Xsolla platform. It will allow developers to “quickly and safely” integrate NFT into the gaming economy.

Despite the fact that the previous parts of Beholder were developed by Warm Lamp Games, the publisher Alawar attracted the German indie studio Paintbucket Games to create the third one. Co-founder of the company Jörg Friedrich (Jörg Friedrich) in the framework of Talents in Games Conference 2022 spoke about the features and problems of working on Beholder 3.

About 3 thousand applications can be removed from the App Store by next month, according to analysts from Sensor Tower. Old applications that have not been updated for several years will come under attack. To avoid their removal, developers will have to release updates within 30 days.

Barclays Bank shared statistics of transactions related to games. So, in 2021, the expenses of Britons aged 25 to 60 increased by 50-59%, and the size of the average in-game transaction was £15.